Samantha Tomasini, the Salinas mother who attempted to sell her 9-month-old baby outside of a Walmart store, is still strung out on methamphetamine and tried to kill herself twice, family members said.

Tomasini pleaded no contest to child endangerment for helping her boyfriend, Patrick Fousek, sell their daughter to strangers for $25 in the summer of 2010. Police also said Tomasini breast fed her infant while high on methamphetamine.

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The 22 -year-old mother served a brief stint in jail, had to enroll in a drug treatment program and was placed on probation.

"We really hope that this is rock bottom for her," Vanessa Chobanian, Tomasini's mother, said two years ago after Tomasini entered her plea.

Chobanian had hoped her daughter would be convicted, locked up, and get help to kick a vicious meth addiction.

"We're hoping that this will be the end, that this will be a huge turning point in her life and that she will get the help she needs. We're praying that out of this whole mess, something really, really good will happen," Chobanian said.

"The court can force her to do what she's not doing now, that why I hoping she get appropriate amount of time that be like a dry out period for her. Jail not a fun place, it will be a place for her to think about what has happened."

But not many good things have happened since then.

While locked up in the Monterey County Jail, Tomasini tried to commit suicide twice.

Soon after she was freed from her cell in November 2011, prosecutors and friends said Tomasini was back on drugs.

In court Wednesday, Tomasini was sentenced to another year in jail for violating her probation. Prosecutors said the troubled mother tested positive for drugs and did not check in with parole agents.

Fousek, 40, was found guilty by a jury of child endangerment. In December 2011, Judge Pamela Butler handed Fousek the maximum sentence she could give, six years in prison.

Their child was taken away by child protective services and has been living with a foster family for the past two years.

Before the baby selling incident, the couple lived together on the 700 block of East Romie Lane, where they heavily used methamphetamine, police said.